Monday, April 17, 2006

The Boat

So after the wedding we all headed over to the Casino Aztar. I was pretty exhausted, but it seemed like it would be fun. We got there and wondered around the boat for a while trying to decide what we wanted to play. I should preface this with the story of the boyfriend's first trip to the Aztar. The way he tells it, he walked into the Casino, pulled out a one dollar bill, shoved it into a dollar slot machine, hit the button, and it spit out $43.

So i decide to try his technique. I shove a dollar in a slot machine....nothing. I shove another one in... nothing. Stupid slot machines! I head over to the ATM to get some cash (this is a game i KNOW i can win, slide card, punch in numbers, it spits out cash! AWESOME), thinking I'll play some blackjack. Come to find out, blackjack table minimums are $10 instead of $5. I'm not really feeling like losing that much money. So i decide, I'll go sit at the nickel slots for a while. I sit down at the nickel slots and start playing. Have you ever played those things? It's so confusing. There are 5 columns instead of 3. There are weird things on the screen, not just the traditional bars and 7's and stuff. There were frogs and castles. It was just weird. i didn't understand it. Slots shouldn't be that hard! So, i was up fifty cents and decided to cash out. I'd rather lose a quarter at a time and know why i lost it than lose a nickel at a time and not know why.

I actually decided i was about done. The boyfriend said he was ok with leaving too. He had lost enough already. I told him it was probably better for me to go while i was up, even if it was only fifty cents. Then he brought up those pesky $2 that i popped into that first slot machine. I was down $1.50, not up $.50. Dang it!! Well that was just unacceptable. I was absolutely positive that i could win back my $1.50 on a slot machine.

We started walking around and I looked at a slot machine and told the boyfriend, "that's the one." He laughed and walked away as i sat down ready to win back my $1.50. I stuck a $20 in the machine and hit the button. NOTHING! I hit the button again.............................. spin spin spin spin, stop stop stop...... dingdingdingdingdingdingdingding......... I won $150!!!!!! WOOOHOOO!!! I hit the cash out button, took my payout ticket up to get my cash, said goodbye to the bride and groom and the rest of the group (after telling them my fabulous story of course), and headed home! YEA!

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